Great Ideas V On Liberty
In one of the most influential philosophical works ever writen, John Stuart Mill explores the risks and responsibilities of liberty. Examining the tyranny that can come both from government and from the herd-like opinion of the majority, Mill proposes a freedom to think, unite, and pursue our pleasures as the most important freedoms, as long as we cause no harm to others.
GREAT IDEAS. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and…
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September 21, 2010
John Stuart Mill was a child of radicalism, born in 1806 into a rarefied realm of philosophic discourse. His father, who with Jeremy Bentham was a founding member of the utilitarian movement, was responsible for his son’s education and saw to it that he was trained in the classics at an extraordinarily early age. In 1823 Mill gave up a career in law to become a clerk at the East India Company, where his father worked. Like his father, he rose to the position of chief examiner, which he held until he retired from the company in 1858.
While still in his teens, Mill began publishing articles and essays in various publications and became an editor of the…
Great Ideas V On Liberty
John Stuart Mill
On Liberty and the Subjection of Women
John Stuart Mill
The Basic Writings of John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
On Liberty and Utilitarianism
John Stuart Mill
Autobiography
John Stuart Mill; Edited with an Introduction by John M. Robson
Utilitarianism and Other Essays
John Stuart Mill and Jeremy Bentham; Edited with an Introduction by Alan Ryan
The Decay of Lying
Oscar Wilde
What Is Existentialism?
Simone De Beauvoir
One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer
Aristotle
Three Japanese Buddhist Monks
Various
Anarchist Communism
Peter Kropotkin
God Is Dead. God Remains Dead. And We Have Killed Him.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Bushido
Inazo Nitobe
Ain't I a Woman?
Sojourner Truth
Suffragette Manifestos
Various
On Solitude
Michel de Montaigne
Great Ideas V On Liberty
John Stuart Mill
Great Ideas V Night Walks
Charles Dickens